Category: Green Building LEED News
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Extra Space Storage is adding 65 solar PV systems across the U.S. via Pivot Energy
Pivot Energy and Extra Space Storage have announced collaboration to install 65 rooftop solar systems on storage buildings across eight states, including Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Tennessee. The portfolio totals 5.5 megawatts of emission-free and reliable energy, producing enough electricity to power nearly 1,000 homes forRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Small Ohio town turns away from coal to this utility-scale solar array
On a partly cloudy day in December of 2019, the mayor of Shelby, Ohio, flipped the switch that would add clean, renewable solar power to the town’s power grid system. Across the United States, more small towns are finding affordable and environmentally safe ways to generate power, and Shelby mayor SteveRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Five large-scale solar innovations to know this month
In large-scale solar, every penny counts, so it helps to stay up to date with every way to achieve better construction efficiencies, cost savings or improved LCOE. Here are some innovations and ideas that caught our eye this month. 1. Standardizing with ClearSky Equipment standardization for portfolio-level purchasing is aRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Ashley Furniture has one of the largest rooftop solar systems in the country thanks to SunPeak
Ashley Furniture Industries started a multi-phase effort to reduce its energy footprint last year. Cut to today and 28,776 roof-mounted solar panels atop Ashley’s Leesport, Penn., facility will produce more than 9,630 MWh of electricity per year. This is roughly equivalent to the amount of power consumed by 786 averageRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Over 60 percent of new electrical generating capacity added this year is renewable energy
Renewable energy sources have dominated new U.S. electrical generating capacity additions in the first eight months of 2020, according to a review of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) by the SUN DAY Campaign. We’re talking 63.3% or 10,445 MW of the 16,499 MW of newRead More — Solar Builder magazine